<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-01'>Sunday, April 1, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln buys bond no. 89 ($50) of issue for refinancing state house debt.
<bibl default='NO'>ISLA&#8212;Files.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-04'>Wednesday, April 4, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[Tazewell Circuit Court opens its session at Tremont.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-07'>Saturday, April 7, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes four letters recommending Whigs for various offices 
held by Democrats. To W. B. Warren, clerk of Second Grand Division of 
state Supreme Court, Lincoln writes that he wishes Edwards, or if he 
withdraws, Morrison, to have General Land Office; but "if the office 
could be secured to Illinois by my consent to accept it, and not 
otherwise, I give that consent."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A49' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Jacob Collamer</xref>, 7 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:39; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A50' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 7 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:39-40; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A51' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 7 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:40; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A52' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 7 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:40-41; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A53' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William B. Warren and Others</xref>, 7 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:41-42.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' type='New' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-04-09'>Monday,
  April 9, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.</dateline>
         <p>Lincoln meets with fellow Whig William Butler and informs him
  that he has decided to recommend someone other than Butler for the position of
  Receiver of the land office at Springfield. <bibl default='NO'>William Butler to Richard
  Yates, 11 April 1849, Yates Family Papers, Box 35 &#189;, folder 1, IHi,
  Springfield, IL.</bibl> 
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-10'>Tuesday, April 10, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes Thomas Ewing that he cannot recommend for Kaskaskia 
Land Office appointments, that region being too far away and not in 
his district. He will back anyone favored by J. L. D. Morrison and R. 
B. Servant, Whigs.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A54' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 10 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:42.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-04-12'>Thursday, April 12, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield,
  IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> Lincoln resumes his law practice writing receipts
  for witness fees and clerk's fees in <name type='case' key='L02766'>Broadwell
  et al. for use of Thompson et ux. v. Broadwell and Broadwell</name>. Lincoln
  represents one of the defendants, John B. Broadwell. <bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-13'>Friday, April 13, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
On 7th Lincoln wrote Thomas Ewing recommending Walter Davis for 
receiver and Turner R. King for register of Land Office at 
Springfield. He asks Ewing to transpose those recommendations.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A51' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 7 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:40; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A52' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 7 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:40-41; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A55' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 13 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:42.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes the affidavit of Joseph Nelson, the plaintiff in <name type='case' key='L04089'>Nelson v. Busher and Nelson</name>, a replevin case before the Sangamon County Circuit Court.
<bibl default='NO'>Photocopy.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-16'>Monday, April 16, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
[McLean Circuit Court convenes at Bloomington.]
</p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-18'>Wednesday, April 18, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln buys $6.03 worth of paper and oilcloth shelf "bordering."
<bibl default='NO'>Irwin Journal.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-19'>Thursday, April 19, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Replying to Cyrus Edwards, who informs him that Morrison will not 
withdraw as candidate for Land Office, Lincoln reiterates his 
helplessness until Edwards and Morrison get together. Lincoln's 
friends have urged him to take office, but he has declined unless 
administration refuses to give it to Edwards.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Journal, XXV, 144.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-20'>Friday, April 20, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to W. B. Preston, secretary of the navy, that most 
government advertising in Illinois goes to Democratic papers. Taylor 
will probably "not go the doctrine of removals very strongly," but 
when job is not already in Democratic hands it should be given to 
Whig. "And if still <uLine>less</uLine> than this is done for our 
friends, I think they will have just cause to complain."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A56' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to William B. Preston</xref>, 20 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:42-43.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-23'>Monday, April 23, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln gives John E. Roll, carpenter, six walnut doors in part 
payment for remodeling his house.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Journal, XIX, 159-60.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-24'>Tuesday, April 24, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Jacob Bunn's store has new customer, <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>, who sends E. G. 
Johns, painter, for keg of lead paint, who charges it ($2) to Lincoln.
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-25'>Wednesday, April 25, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln, having learned that Justin Butterfield of Chicago is being 
considered for Land Office, writes to J. M. Lucas, of Jacksonville, 
clerk in Land Office in Washington: "He is my personal friend, and is 
qualified to do the duties of the office; but of the quite one 
hundred Illinoisians, equally well qualified, I do not know one with 
less claims to it." He writes to Philo H. Thompson of Pekin, for whom 
he recommended T. R. King for Land Office appointment. This is giving 
him trouble, for King has been attacked as gambler.
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A57' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Josiah M. Lucas</xref>, 25 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:43-44; <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A58' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Philo H. Thompson</xref>, 25 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:44.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-26'>Thursday, April 26, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln writes to Ewing regarding charges made against T. R. King. He 
requests that when charges are made against anyone recommended by 
him, action be suspended until he can investigate. He knows "the 
principal object of the fault-finders, to be to stab me."
<bibl default='NO'>
               <xref from='ROOT' url='http://www.hti.umich.edu/cgi/t/text/text-idx?c=lincoln;rgn=div1;view=text;idno=lincoln2;node=lincoln2%3A59' targOrder='U' to='DITTO'>Abraham Lincoln to Thomas Ewing</xref>, 26 April 1849, <title corresp='books_Basler2'>CW</title>, 2:44-45.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
            <person key='LI30825' teiForm='name'>Mrs. Lincoln</person>'s painter buys second keg of lead paint.
<bibl default='NO'>Bunn Journal.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline> 
            <date value='1849-04-27'>Friday, April
  27, 1849.</date> 
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>. </dateline>
         <p> [DeWitt
  Circuit Court convened in Clinton yesterday.] </p>
      </div2>

<div2 part='N' sample='complete' org='uniform'>
         <dateline>
            <date value='1849-04-30'>Monday, April 30, 1849.</date>
            <place key='39.8000, -89.6333' teiForm='name'>Springfield, IL</place>.
</dateline>
         <p>
Lincoln replies to letter from Cyrus Edwards in which Edwards 
instructs him to take whatever course he deems best. Lincoln states 
that he believes Edwards has chance and prefers he not withdraw.
<bibl default='NO'>IHi&#8212;Journal, XXV, 144.</bibl>
         </p>
         <p>
Lincoln writes a bond for his client, Edward D. Baker, and the affidavit of James H. Matheny, and files both documents with the Sangamon County Circuit Court for the case  
<name type='case' key='L02578'>Baker v. Browne</name>.
<bibl default='NO'>Herndon-Weik Collection, Library of Congress, Washington, DC.</bibl>
         </p>
      </div2>